hi, Table styles don't exist as such. We have paragraph styles and pages styles, but not table styles. So this shouldn't be there in the styles menu.. a s "Table styles"... with "New" in the context menu grayed out :) These table styles are, as it seems, fix templates. They are a bunch of predefined tables... NOT styles... - - - thank you for developing LIbreoffice and Writer - - -
Can not confirm. Status quo as in see also bug 101349 implemented at 6.0 release. Tables created in Writer are autoformatted and receive a Style "Default Table Style" (wef bug 107554). And that style can be changed to any of the project provided table styles--exactly the same workflow as Paragraphs, Characters or Lists. Yes the values assigned to each cell of a table are assembled *from a template*, and the template is not directly editable, but the tables generated from template function as if there were discrete styles. Resulting ODF as <office:automatic-styles> with <style:style ...> stanzas. Available from the <F11> Stylist deck of the Sidebar: listing of "Default Table Style", "Academic", "Box List Green", "Box List Red", "Box List Yellow", "Elegant", "Financial", "Simple Grid Columns", "Simple Grid Rows", "Simple List Shaded". IMHO nothing actionable here.
As I recall, for bug 49437 work needed to provide the table templates as XML was holding back ability for users to manipulate the template based table styling in UI or by extension.
Besides Stuart's comments, what do you suggest? To remove all the work and rather have nothing like TS? Or to rename TS into "Table Template" and separate access to this feature from the "real styles"? And doesn't the TS feature work for average users like a style? => WF/NAB
I'd suggest marking as duplicate of bug 152711.
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #4) Sure... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 152711 ***